Re: RFC#8 - bzip2

[Dave Feustel <dfeustel@mindspring.com>]

On Wed 26 Feb 03 07:01, Miod Vallat wrote:
> > There appears to be no mention of 'MAXINT' in the bzip2 man page.
> > Where else might I look?
>
> Sigh... this was a computer joke wrt the value of INT_MAX (also known as
> MAXINT in the past) from /usr/include/machine/limits.h.
>
> Now, wrt bzip2, this is explained in detail in the "MEMORY MANAGMENT"
> section of the manual page.

Sorry I missed that. People tell me all the time I'm too serious.

I looked at the memory usage numbers and they look insignificant to me
but I've been running on 512Mb for almost a year. What is the impact on
more real world-like hardware?